Cattle Outlook: August beef in cold storage, steer slaughter higher
USDA says that 0.8% fewer cattle were placed on feed this August than last. They report that August marketings of fed cattle were up 6.5%, in part due to one extra slaughter day.
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U.S. beef supplies climb as retailers prepare for hoilday demand
Pork supplies in U.S. freezers at the end of last month swelled nearly 14 percent over last year’s levels, according to a government report, a reflection of meatpackers’ stockpiling the meat to keep pace with robust exports. Beef supplies were up 11 percent.
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Cold storage survey: Further decline seen in pork inventories
Analysts expect the federal government to report a decline last month in the amount of pork held in the nation's warehouse freezers, while estimates for beef inventories vary.
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Tyson to pay $2.3M to settle sex discrimination charges
A Tyson Foods Inc. unit reached a settlement in a sex-discrimination case under which it will pay nearly $2.3 million to more than 1,650 female job applicants that were rejected for employment at four plants.
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Commentary: An exercise in futility
Once again, the notion that microbial testing is the pathway to ultimate food safety has reared its misguided head—courtesy of an activist senator who just can’t seem to grasp the facts.
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WASDE: 2011 beef production higher but weights lower due to heat stress
The 2011 forecast of total red meat and poultry production is raised reflecting higher beef production, but lower pork production. Continued large cow slaughter is expected to boost beef production.
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Tyson Foods worker sues union for threats and intimidation
A meat processing worker has filed federal charges against a local union and Tyson Foods, Inc. officials after union officials illegally threatened to retaliate against him for exercising his rights.
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Strong demand makes for strong pork, beef packer margins
In the past, record-high livestock prices such as we have seen this year usually meant that packers lost money by the boatload — but not so in 2011. Packer margins in both the beef and pork sectors have been exceptionally good for much of the year and have, on occasion, neared all-time record levels.
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MU FAPRI updates agricultural baseline ahead of congressional Farm Bill debates
Tight crop supplies and record farm prices dominate a midyear baseline update from the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri.
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Heavy placements of cattle on feed portend future beef production
The USDA's latest Livestock, Dairy and Poultry outlook reports that during the first half of 2011, net placements were 2 percent above placements for the first half of 2010 as drought has pushed cattle off pastures in many parts of the country, and most of these feeder cattle have gone into feedlots.
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Drought weighing in on cow slaughter
July 1 beef cow inventories have been declining since reaching a cyclical peak of 36.1 million cows on July 1, 1995. Since July 1995, there have only been 2 years in which beef-cow inventories increased (143,000 head from 2004 to 2005 and 28,000 head from 2005 to 2006) from prior-year inventories.
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- Ag commodities were mixed Friday morning
- YSA members gain insight into agribusiness, retail industries
- Meat industry associations quick to attack the new MCOOL rule
- Team up against bovine respiratory disease
- Oil prices pare losses on U.S. equities turnaround
- Future of food discussion with Agriculture Secretary
- Former Eastern Livestock CEO, CFO sentenced for federal crimes
- Post-tornado composting a solution for disposal of dead livestock
- Michigan hay buyers should plan purchases early
- More beef cows in worst drought regions than a year ago
- TSCRA works with sale barns to catch Houston cattle thief
- Seven jobs more dangerous than farming
